Irène Galter | |
Birth Name: | Irene Patuzzi |
Birth Date: | 1931 9, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Merano, Kingdom of Italy |
Death Date: | 7 June 2018 (aged 86) |
Death Place: | Novara, Italy |
Occupation: | Actress |
Irène Galter (16 September 1931 – 7 June 2018) was an Italian actress.
Born in Merano as Irene Patuzzi, during the first half of the 1950s Galter was called the "ideal girlfriend" of Italians. She was casually discovered in a shop where she worked as a clerk by Giuseppe De Santis, who launched her career in 1952 with the neorealist film .[1] After a number of successful films, she married the South Tyrolean entrepreneur Otto Lughin and retired from showbusiness.[1]